May 2007 Board Minutes

Arrowhead Mfg. & Fabricators Association

Board Meeting Minutes

May 17, 2007

The AMFA Board of Directors meeting was called to order at 12:20 p.m. at Grizzly’s on the Hill in Duluth on Thursday, May 17, 2007.  Members present: Dan Larson, Dave Sarvela, Tom Vacca, Rusty Hoglund, Byron Helland, Gene Betts, and David Hogan.  Not able to attend: Gary Werkhoven. 

“Trifac Fund” was removed from the consent agenda – more information needed.  Motion to approve the consent agenda with this change by Betts, second by Hoglund.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Program Committee:  Dan reported that a general AMFA meeting has been scheduled August 8^th at the Great Lakes Aquarium, including a grill on the deck.   Motion to approve the meeting schedule proposed by Mary Brandt.  Betts, 2^nd Helland.  Helland will contact Roger Plath to check availability.

Membership Committee –

Dan contacted both Floe International and CNC Solutions.  CNC Solutions said a renewal will occur.

Marketing/PR/Web/Newsletter:  

Newsletter:  Upgrades still evolving.  Fred Zimmerman is still planning to contribute articles.

Brochures are available.  Business cards should be distributed at the golf outing.

Gene is resigning from the committee.  His replacement should review the UMD-CED report.

Supporting Education:

Discussion: Scrap material could be distributed to local schools from AMFA members.  One option is to ask LSC truck driver training program if they could do pickup/delivery as part of their training.

Dan reported on his visit to Lake Superior College.  Suggested that Shoptalk should be distributed.

OLD BUSINESS

Officer Positions: Bylaw Revision   Change Article V, Section 3 – “total” changed to “maximum” in regard to maximum number of years President can serve.

Fee Structure for NE Colleges:  Motion by Betts, 2^nd Hogan to accept the following proposal:

NEW BUSINESS

Shoptalk Advertising Rates:  Establishing rates for ½ and full-page ads.  Motion by Betts, 2^nd Hogan to accept these rates:  Half-Page: $85/$400/$675 and Full-Page:  $150/$700/$1,200

Fisher proposal to design and host a basic website for AMFA members.  Comment:  Agreed that if AMFA follows this direction, we should choose a firm that is reputable and dependable.   The group BOD will go back to gather more information and will continue discussion electronically.

Gene’s first and second motion’s were tabled.

Third Motion from Gene:

Button on website that links to member’s only restricted page for posting BOD minutes and other privileged information.  Motion to accept Hoglund, 2^nd Helland.

Credit card discussion – not a fit for AMFA at this time.

Motion to adjourn:  Hogan, 2^nd Betts.

Respectfully submitted by Dave Sarvela, AMFA Secretary